I hadn't heard of The Next Penelope before the game's marketer, Indie Fund scout John Polson, reached out to tell me about it, but I'm sold on the premise and look of this game. »1/11/15 2:30pm 1/11/15 2:30pm

I went to Brooklyn, New York to visit Nina Freeman, who is currently making a game called Cibele. It is an autobiographical game about Nina’s experience having sex for the first time with someone she met through an online game. The game uses real filmed sequences and sections of an MMO-like game to tell an emotionally…»8/04/14 6:00pm 8/04/14 6:00pm

It's every parent's nightmare: that somehow, some way, your actions wind up causing physical or psychological harm to your child. A new in-development game aims to put players in the repercussions of the death of a boy. A death that's your fault. »6/18/14 12:30pm 6/18/14 12:30pm

Look, we know you're looking at a screen without the benefit of red and blue lenses right now. But don't let that stop you from admiring that Chun Li artwork. It's good, isn't it? »5/08/14 4:00pm 5/08/14 4:00pm

Whenever I get to feeling nostalgic about the 3D platformer-saturated days of the Nintendo 64 and PS1, Gears for Breakfast's upcoming PC game A Hat In Time arrives to cheer me up with a new trailer and fresh screens. »5/04/14 7:09pm 5/04/14 7:09pm

How can a goat play video games? Listen, I don't know. It's better if we don't dwell on things like that, because the point is, you can play a bunch of mini games in Goat Simulator if you know where to look. »4/01/14 7:00pm 4/01/14 7:00pm

A reality TV show about some of the best indie game developers in the business competing Iron-Chef-style to make amazing games? Sounds like a great idea, right? You'd think so, but this story does not, unfortunately, have a happy ending. »3/31/14 7:51pm 3/31/14 7:51pm

Taken some bizarre, life-altering road trips in your day? Here's a game that's probably going to appeal to you.Glitchhikers puts you on the road in the deepest, weirdest recesses of the dark night and opens up the passenger-side door to some pretty weird folks. Find out more here. »3/24/14 7:15pm 3/24/14 7:15pm

Someone who's helped get a lot of great video games in your hands needs your help now. Brandon Boyer—the chairman of the Independent Game Festival and a relentlessly exuberant champion of all sorts of video game creativity—fought off cancer last year. But the expenses of his medical care came out to a whopping… »3/06/14 4:30pm 3/06/14 4:30pm